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Pella of the Decapolis (Extinct city)

LC control no.sh 93003551
Geographic headingPella of the Decapolis (Extinct city)
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Geographic subdivision usageJordan--Pella of the Decapolis (Extinct city)
Variant(s)Khirbet Fahil (Extinct city)
Pehal (Extinct city)
Pella (Extinct city)
Pella Decapolitana (Extinct city)
See alsoExtinct cities--Jordan
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Found inWork cat.: 93109879: Richards, F.V. Scarab seals from a middle to late Bronze Age tomb at Pella in Jordan, c1992.
Lippincott (Pella: anc. town of Gilead Palestine. One of the Decapolis)
Princeton encyc. classic. sites (Pella (Khirbet Fahil) Jordan; known from early Egyptian texts as Pehal; Pompey conquered Pella, then freed it and made it part of the Decapolis; destroyed A.D. 66)
Weber, T. Pella Decapolitana, 1993.